good

adjective30

1. •
   nice, and making you feel happy

   • We had a good time.
2. •
   Having a particularly pleasant taste.

   • The food was very good.
3. •
   Competent or talented.

   • Flatter him it may, I confess, (as those are generally good at flattering who are good for nothing else,) but in the meantime the poor man is left under the fatal necessity of a needless delusion — 1704
4. •
   Effective.

   • There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls. — 1913
5. •
   Healthful.

   • Exercise and a varied diet are good for you.
6. •
   Beneficial; worthwhile.
7. •
   Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral.

   • good intentions
8. •
   Well-behaved (especially of children or animals).

   • Be good while your mother and I are out.
   • Were you a good boy for the babysitter?
9. •
   Unblemished; honourable.
10. •
    Useful for a particular purpose; functional.

    • it’s a good watch
    • the flashlight batteries are still good
11. •
    Of food or other perishable products, still fit for use; not yet expired, stale, rotten, etc.

    • The bread is still good.
12. •
    Valid, of worth, capable of being honoured.

    • This coupon is good for a free doughnut.
13. •
    Satisfied or at ease; not requiring more.

    • Would you like a glass of water? — I'm good.
    • [Are] you good? — Yeah, I'm fine.
14. •
    (informal) Accepting of, OK with

    • My mother said she's good with me being alone with my date as long as she's met them first.
    • The soup is rather spicy. Are you good with that, or would you like something else?
15. •
    Favorable.
16. •
    Being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements.

    • Eat a good dinner so you will be ready for the big game tomorrow.
17. •
    Adequate; sufficient; not fallacious.

    • [I]f thou ask me why, / Sufficeth my reasons are both good and waighty. — 1590
18. •
    Large in amount or size.

    • a good number of seeds
    • A good part of his day was spent shopping.
19. •
    Full; entire; at least as much as.

    • This hill will take a good hour and a half to climb.
    • The car was a good ten miles away.
20. •
    (informal) Ready.

    • I'm good when you are.
    • The reports are good to go.
21. •
    True, valid, of explanatory strength.

    • This theory still holds good even if much higher temperatures are assumed.
22. •
    Special, best, favorite.

    • No, not that one. That's my good shirt I only wear for special occasions.
    • Shoot! A tear. And these are my good jeans.
23. •
    Reasonable in amount.
24. •
    Right, proper, as it should be.

    • It is not good to be alone, / to walk here in this worthely wone, / In all this welthly wyn — 1897
25. •
    Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit; used with for.

    • Can you lend me fifty dollars? You know I'm good for it.
26. •
    (informal) Very, extremely. See good and.

    • The soup is good and hot.
27. •
    Holy (especially when capitalized) .
28. •
    (Internet, offensive) Of a black person, dead or killed.

    • Another evil nigger made good. I love a good news story. — 2008
29. •
    (no longer used) Of high rank or birth.

    • Thou art a Traitor, and a Miscreant; Too good to be so, and too bad to liue, Since the more faire and christall is the skie, The vglier seeme the cloudes that in it flye: — 1595
30. •
    (no longer used) Real; actual; serious.

    • Love no man in good earnest. — 1598

verb8

1. •
   (dialect) To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
2. •
   (dialect) To make good; turn to good; improve.
3. •
   (dialect) To make improvements or repairs.
4. •
   (dialect) To benefit; gain.
5. •
   (dialect) To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
6. •
   (dialect) To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
7. •
   [with oneself] (dialect) To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
8. •
   (dialect, Scotland) To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.

   • April 5 1628, Bishop Joseph Hall, The Blessings, Sins, and Judgments of God's Vineyard Nature was like itself , in it , in the world : God hath taken it in from the barren downs , and gooded it : his choice did not find , but make it thus

noun5

1. •
   The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
2. •
   The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.

   • The best is the enemy of the good.
   • He is an influence for good on those girls.
3. •
   [usually plural] An item of merchandise.

   • Thy lands and goods / Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate / Unto the state of Venice. — 1596
4. •
   A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
5. •
   [usually plural] An article of personal property (as opposed to real property).

adverb1

1. •
   (informal, nonstandard) Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.

   • When you're cleaning these racks, you've got to get in there good, because the quality system specifies it.
   • The boy done good.

exclamation1

1. •
   That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.

   • Good! I can leave now.

adverb1

1. •
   (informal) To a significant degree.

   • Guess you knocked that noggin of yours somethin' good." — 1999